beatrix there this is cuba on al-jazeera. the worst floods to hit the indian state of carolina in one hundred years of full bottles and from there. hello welcome to our jazeera live from. coming up breaking the mold cricket star turned politician imran khan is sworn in as pakistan's new prime minister. a state funeral for those killed in chooses bridge collapse in genoa. mexico's

president says he'll put the face of a new airport telephone. thousands of people in southern india are being moved from their homes as what's being called the worst flooding in a century sweeps across the state of kara prime minister narendra modi surveyed some of the worst affected areas from a helicopter three hundred twenty people say far have been killed heavy rains over the past few days triggered landslides and sent water a crushing through villages and helicopters have been rescuing people stranded on their rooftops. now almost all the districts in kerala are on alert with the flooding potentially affecting the state's thirty five million people it's so bad the main airport kochie has been shut down for at least a week now and tourists have been told to stay away so far more than three hundred thousand people have been displaced by the flooding most of them are now living in

relief camps that have been set up with more to ritual rain forecast for the weekend the government has pledged a seventy million dollars aid package. well we can get an update on the situation without outages there is meteorologist kevin corriveau who is with me said kevin i mean at the annual monsoon rains have hit particularly hard haven't they tara where we are so above average right now on this particular year and they have really hit hard over the last several weeks we have seen some of the percentages with the rain exceeding over three hundred to four hundred percent in some of those areas. really compared to other years this has been an exceptional year if we go back several years such as two thousand and fourteen that was a pretty much normal year in terms of the monsoon but then backed to two thousand and fifty we're actually below average in that was the trend for two thousand and

fifteen two thousand and sixteen as well as two thousand and seventeen so should we be seeing this in the context of changing weather patterns globally well you know we can't we can't take that out of the scenario because you know we are watching definitely around the world with global temperatures rising and seeing the differences of what's happening in parts of the other areas so definitely we're watching this now we're looking at the area probably see a few more days of very heavy rain but we expect to see probably the forecast changing in better weather conditions coming into play for them over the next several days and there have been some reports that deforestation is one of the aspects that have led to say many of the months lies which have added to the catastrophe in this part of india of course when you take away when you take away that the hold on the earth where you know the trees in the agriculture is really giving way to just loose soil you have this much rain of course mudslides landslides flash flooding is definitely

a higher risk across that area and that's will be seeing in this region over the next few days though we do expect to see some better conditions take a look the forecasts as we go towards the next few days on the forecast map we are looking at the heavy rain to start to move up the coast if we can show the forks. yes map in that area real quickly there we go take a look at the forecast pushing forward to the next few days we are looking at some better weather conditions up the coast there we go. one more time looks good there we are we're looking at some better weather conditions there so they are going to get a break as we go to monday as well as into tuesday we do think that the heavy risk though is going to be up towards where some very heavy rain is as well as into northwestern parts of india just south of kolkata we have that old tropical cyclone making its way across the bay of bengal and that is going to be bringing some very heavy rains across that area as well all right thank you for that kevin now to pakistan where the former cricketer imran khan has been sworn in as prime minister it's taken him more than two decades to get the top job after retiring from sports

and turning his attention to politics he was elected prime minister in a vase at the country's national assembly his p.t.i. party won the may see in elections last month let's go live now to the pakistan capital islamabad our correspondent there kemal hi there imran khan is promising a new pakistan what does that look like. well that's an interesting question he of course is promising accountability promising deep politicized nation of the government institution he also wants to come down hard on foreign and particularly corruption so it's a big. job for you this is after all a young country where the population the majority of the population is very low to go a lot of expectation that foreign people are concerned and excitement is rare because

pakistan tehreek in solving the new party a political force with. political force in a country which had. parliamentary democracy. people hoping for change and emraan of course having. and challenging fame indeed as you say breaking the mold and breaking the did not stick hold on pakistani politics and the important thing i guess for him to golf and will be the support of the institutions of the stop this meant that of course most people in pakistan mean the army does he have the support . he does have the support primarily because he had the new opportunity the first opportunity most probably. bored to however he would be going to a very different draw need try to reorganize government institutions become very

politicized and. the military. supporting the military had already support any democratic order should not be forgotten and don has seen. the military rule that had lost it for decades and this is for the first time did you have. before transition from one hundred million government to another so iran likely to have good relations with the establishment including the military but at the same time he wants to focus on external challenges particularly relations with the neighboring countries he is already all of ford india in an olive branch saying that if they take one step that he will go and take two steps also he has received a call from the afghan president are sure of one e.u. and then why did them to call berlin run and accepted that the iranians have also

sent a message that they want normalization in fact betterment of bilateral relationship between their two countries so there's a lot at stake external as well as internal challenges that enron will have to contend with come out i don't live in islamabad thank you. now the state funeral is underway in italy for some of the victims of tuesday's bridge collapse in genoa president said mathur dela is set to attend and it will be presided over by the archbishop of genoa bought some of the families a plane with government for the disaster and they're saying that they will stay away from the ceremony conducting their own private ceremony is in said at least thirty eight people were killed hundreds of others were injured in go live to that ceremony down our correspondent there is david chaytor and david so some of the people clearly not a tour happy by. what they see as a as negligence on the part of the government that has led to the death of their

relatives and staying away from the state occasion. yes martin festival can i just describe the mood here at the convention center on the port side of genoa where the funerals are taking place obviously it's a deeply some the mood here highly emotional because you can use it another family were there down to the rubble overnight a husband wife and their nine year old daughter that's weighing on the minds of the people i've been seeing coming in here that they're trying they needed support they're holding each other it is a very emotional scene here says you said to seventeen of the families of course have decided to stay away from this spotlight stay away from the media cameras and to make sure they don't take part in any state funeral that's happening here for

another eighteen of the families because they don't believe they should be on display for the use of the politicians here we have both italian president and italian prime minister coming to this funeral and they believe that it was government negligence state negligence of course such creep. the anguish and such a huge tragedy and they don't want anything to do with it they prefer the privacy of their own grief with their own family and that's how they want to say goodbye to their loved ones who died in this tragedy and so david's the news is that there have been the remains of another family then discovered as a night as you mentioned and how many people remain unaccounted for in is this still a recovery over or is it still a rescue operation underway in the vicinity of this bridge or as it turned to recovery. i think frankly despite

the the fading hopes amongst the rescue teams that they realize that people buried under that huge weight of concrete and tuned under that span of the bridge have little chance of still being alive now they're still working of course they won't give up that work until they finally accounted for all of those families who are missing now the figures are very between ten and twenty but they're now saying about five people are missing the death toll has now gone up to forty one and there's still a sense of anger here among many of the people and many of the families of the victims that it was essentially state negligence which causes and we're hearing today that the the company which had the concession for maintaining that bridge and also much other of many other roads and bridges across the whole. system in italy is holding a press conference because proceedings has now been started by the populous

coalition government here against them to remove that concession from so we don't know what they're going to announce for that press conference will take place and they'll be of a she looking at compensating the victims rebuilding the bridge and within five months to see a government deadline they said you've got to do that well here exact. they look they not disabled at the moment people are thinking about the that company they aren't thinking about that they're thinking about the grief and having the support of each other here in support of gen. david chase or at the state funeral taking place for the victims of the bridge collapse in general. still to come here at al-jazeera. the u.s. threatens to impose more sanctions on turkey as ankara face is further economic pressure. the russian president vladimir putin heads to berlin to discuss a controversial gas line which will bypass ukraine.

from the clear blue sky of the doe home. to the fresh fruits and breeze in the city of london. hello and welcome back to international weather forecasts we're here across parts of belgium we have seen a very stormy night and now is because we have seen some thunderstorms pushing through we saw some hail we saw some winds we saw quite a bit of lightning push across that area things are a little bit better as we go towards the rest of the afternoon we are looking at some partly cloudy conditions at about twenty five to about twenty four degrees in the area but we do have another weather system that's making its way across the northern part of the atlantic that system is going to be pushing into the u.k. and that is going to bring some windy conditions over the rest of the weekend so good watching that very carefully down across east midsection of the continent we are looking at london storms pushing through as well these are going to be really most of the afternoon into the evening type pop up thunderstorms there we are

looking at some very warm conditions across much of the area you can see those showers pushing through as we make our way towards sunday really stay across most of the area there and we are starting to see a break in the temperatures as we make our way towards the eastern part of europe oh here towards algiers tunisia we have seen quite a bit of activity in terms of showers and thunderstorms here mostly across the higher elevations and for algiers maybe a shower or two at about twenty eight degrees on saturday and that's going to stay as we go towards sunday we're back quite warm at thirty one degrees and over here towards cairo at thirty seven. the weather sponsored by qatar and. every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories but it was in the truck didn't happen the boy told through the eyes of the world journalists images matter a lot international joining the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they report on the stories that matter the most. third someone

from the country who guides you to lead you to the story of the. road listening post on al-jazeera. right let's remind you the top stories here at al-jazeera this morning thousands of people in southern india are being moved from their homes as what's being called the worst flooding in a century sweeps across the state of kerala prime minister narendra modi has surveyed some of the worst affected areas from a helicopter more than three hundred twenty people have been killed every rains over the past few days triggered landslides and said water rushing three villages

helicopters have been rescuing people stranded on their rooftops. the state funeral is under way in italy for victims of tuesday's bridge collapse in genoa but some families are blaming the government for the disaster and they're saying they will boycott the ceremony the remains of a family has been found under the rubble bringing the total of dead to more than forty who were killed hundreds of others were injured. imran khan has been sworn in as prime minister of pakistan it's taken him more than two decades. to get to the top spot after retiring from the sport and turning his attention to politics he was elected prime minister at a vote in the country's national assembly on friday also on a binge of raid looks back at him and calls journey from cricket to the new leader of pakistan. after a twenty two year struggle in manhunts taken pakistan's top dog the charismatic

cricket captain who brought home the world cup is now the prime minister for years his vision has been to build what he calls a new pakistan the stand to become one viable. you can only get out of this by the complete judo and what we call a new box them you know we want to buy what they were go back to the vision of the founding fathers. it all began with the launch of that there eakin soft or p.t.i. in one nine hundred ninety six but it wasn't until the twenty thirteen election that it emerged as pakistan's third largest political party in this election can campaign on a track record of establishing a hospital and a university and more recently running the government of the fabric of our problems . he has long been at the center of media attention both at home and abroad which meant his private life was also no spotlight from marrying british socialite jim i'm a goldsmith whose most recent divorce the journalist ramadan even his third marriage with his spiritual advisor bush has not been without controversy fans also denied

his rival's accusations that he won as many seats this time because he was the military's favorite candidate. but he has been the favored candidate of many first time voters the youth as imran khan calls them his party supporters have disrupted to dish and politics in the last few years but their energy and aggressive social media presence and they've also put pressure on iran and members of his party have misbehaved. imran khan's one of the most recognizable faces of pakistan who's been a vocal critic of u.s. george. reich's and has insisted that dialogue with groups like the taliban is the way to achieve peace people do not want this exogenous of killing in the name of drone attacks is hinted at better ties with neighbors including india and afghanistan in a positive relationship with the us based on what he calls mutual respect. him and con's become the first former cricketer to have turned popular support into an

election win. as he gets ready to fulfill his promise of the so-called new pakistan he faces major challenges including finishing his full five year term as because none of his predecessors remained in power long enough to complete their time in office some of the job it does their. attack his credit rating has been lowered by two financial agencies moody's and standard and poor's now say it's become more difficult for turkey to pay its debts the country's already struggling with a financial crisis and sanctions from the united states every elizondo reports from new york. for the turkish lira it was a week that could not in soon enough he week that started with the lira sliding to a record low of seven point two against the us dollar the currency has lost nearly forty percent of its value against the dollar this year alone as a full fledged economic crisis continues to simmer the trumpet ministration this week threaten to impose additional economic sanctions on turkey over the country's

continued house arrest of a u.s. pastor on terrorism charges the diplomatic standoff led trump on friday to again say sanctions are justified turkey has in my opinion acted very very badly so we haven't seen the last of that we are not going to take it sitting down they can take our face but some analysts say the u.s. is being overly aggressive with the sanctions and use them to march and use them to recklessly if you don't have allies on board when you use the. you erode their effect of this over time however there are some signs of potential relief on wednesday qatar's emir tahmima bin hamad out dunny visited ankara bringing with him promises of an investment package worth fifteen billion dollars the money will mainly be injected into turkey's financial markets and banks turkey also promised to inject more money into the economy here on wall street they're watching the

events in turkey very closely but most analysts say they have not seen any significant signs yet that events there are objecting the u.s. stock market but elsewhere that's not the case markets in asia remain mixed and european stocks were mostly down primarily because many european countries remain heavily exposed to turkey's debts while the list of grievances between these two nato allies is substantial this crisis ultimately boils down to a battle of wills between two leader. there's the big question now which one of them will blink first until then how far will the lira fall in the mean time gabriel is on to. new york. now the united nations secretary general has suggested deploying un mandated peace troops saw. service to protect palestinian civilians antonio guterres has been told to find ways to shield people from what's being

described as excessive and indiscriminate force by the israeli military doesn't jordan has more from the u.n. in new york. the u.n. general assembly ordered the secretary general and tonio good tenors to come up with the report of recommendations so that there could be new ways or perhaps a reinforcement of old ways of protecting palestinian civilians in the ongoing dispute with the israeli government the recommendations for coming from the secretary general are for the first would be increasing the number of you would personnel in the occupied palestinian territories in order to help palestinian civilians improve their quality of life the second recommendation is essentially more money for u.n. and other governmental organization programs to improve health care education and the economy in the occupied territories the last two recommendations from

a terrorist would need a security council resolution and indorsement before either could be employed wud deploy an observer mission that could also act as local bt interest to keep the israeli military and policy of protesters for of getting into an all out conflict the final would be a deployment of perhaps a peacekeeper force an armed force as the document calls it in order to basically make certain that these two sides don't come into any clashes and that people are killed or injured as a result those last two would be very difficult to get into doors but from the security council without considerable debate and to go see a ship and because the u.s. president donald trump has been very vigorous in its defense of israel's right to protect itself it is likely that should a resolution even be to go see it that the u.s. would veto such a measure essentially putting this whole proposal into the waistband but

because the u.n. general assembly decided to debate the matter and to have a good tears take a fresh look at the ongoing crisis in israel and the palestinian territories it is certainly something that's going to lead to at least a do round of discussion in the u.n. security council. the u.s. special counsel investigating possible russian interference in the twenty sixteen election has recommended a former trump campaign aide be jailed george trapper doublers pleaded guilty to lying to the f.b.i. in october he's due to be sentenced early next month special counsel robert mueller says he should serve up to six months in prison. the german chancellor angela merkel is expected to hold talks with the russian president vladimir putin on saturday one of the topics due to be discussed will be the russian gas pipeline which will bypass ukraine that dominic kane reports on the complex

relationship between berlin and moscow. when angle americal me to put in on saturday it will be for the second time in just three months on the table of the conflict in syria the situation in ukraine and the controversial north stream two gas pipeline under the baltic sea but hanging over the meeting is this thing and from donald trump at july's nato summit but germany as far as i'm concerned is captive to russia because it is getting so much of its energy from russia so we're supposed to protect germany but they're getting their energy from russia explain to the. russia provides only around half of germany's annual energy consumption but most is in the form of natural gas and that is why the nord stream to gas pipeline is so contentious it's a network which when complete will transport natural gas from russia under the baltic sea to western europe bypassing the existing land based pipelines through

ukraine and it might deprive the government in kiev as much as three billion dollars a year in revenue ministers in kiev say the project is purely political moscow insists it's just business but i sure wish i knew when you have the stomach stick that lets us get them up close look we have always treated this project as exclusively economic we have always kept this outside the scope of any political process i would also like to say that after the launch of stream two stopping the movement of russian gas through ukraine is not intended. but russia's role in ukraine continues to concern leaders notably anger merkel specifically moscow's immoveable see over the minsk agreement which broker a cease fire between government and separatist forces the often does here all we hope to move forward on the issues of the minsk agreement with ukraine and russia france and germany took on responsibility many years ago we are saddened that still no day goes by without a violation of the cease fire but we don't give up hope and we know that through

this the relationship with russia could be significantly improved and. ukraine assigned to the two leaders do have common ground such as in keeping the run nuclear deal both share concerns about the trumpet ministrations tariffs and diplomacy but their relationship has never been easy i think both sides have accumulated a lot of skepticism mistrust mutual reproaches and grievances that overshadow their relationship which is why few people in the german capital expect any breakthroughs as a result of this meeting dominic. bernie venezuela's president has confirmed his government is making its cryptocurrency an official form of payment alongside the bolivar are the digital class cash the dollar is called the petro it is backed by venezuela's crude oil reserves the largest in the world the

country's been battling hyperinflation which has left it on the brink of economic collapse. xico as president elect says the fate of a controversial new thirteen billion dollar airport will be decided by referendum the vote will take place in october and there is mamma lopez obrador made the project one of the main issues of his campaign from mexico city and paddle rodriguez reports. almost from the moment the ground was broken struction of the new airport in mexico city has been to focus of controversy accusations of overspending and corruption tainted what is the biggest public works project right now in mexico president elect and with a brother has long threatened to guzzle the project as part of his pledge to crack down on public waste and improve mexico's finances. on friday with a brother said it will be the mexican people who ultimately will decide on its fate . all mexicans will decide there will be

a public consultation transparent and honest to reflect the feelings of most mexicans and that result will be binding. the airport is being built on the lake bed of late. i to rain probably to sink in and they impact of earthquakes. a challenge that contractors solved in part of to save by haiti's thousands of tons of rubble and it was has been extracted from around one hundred fifty mines like this one in the state of mexico the material is being used to strengthen the saw on trev in the sinking of the new oil but it's been done at a price and resulted in even more controversy as many of the mines are illegal those such as to so you can say they are dealing with the consequences of the over extraction of the. windows of the well you know we didn't go to the mine the mine came to us we're just fifty centimeters from the edge of the sinkhole these are our

homes and those are the people threatening us. dispence complaints about the mines have been met with indifference by the local authorities with the mine we were ordered to leave. the recipients of to so you guys will be among those making the votes hit at a national level about the future of a project which many had hoped would become a symbol of a new mexico. i just needa mexico city. you know we're out there and these are the top stories the indian prime minister narendra modi has surveyed what's been described as some of the worst flooding in a century in the state of carola thousands of people in the south of the country are being moved from their homes more than three hundred twenty people have been killed every rains over the past few days triggered landslides and sent water rushing through villages former cricket star him run karen has been sworn in as

prime minister of pakistan is taken in more than two decades to get the top job after retiring from sport and turning his attention to politics he was elected prime minister in a vote of the country's national assembly on friday the state funeral is underway for the victims of tuesday's bridge collapse in genoa president said geo matter earlier it's set to attend and it'll be presided over by the archbishop of genoa but some of the families are blaming the government for the disaster and they're staying away they're conducting their own private ceremonies at least thirty eight people were killed and hundreds of others were injured. the u.s. special counsel investigating possible russian interference in the trenches sixteen election has recommended a former trump campaign aide be jailed daughter of a double as pleaded guilty to lying to the f.b.i. in october he's due to be sentenced early next month special counsel says he should

serve up to six months in prison. turkey's credit rating has been lowered by two financial agencies moody's and standard m pause say it's become more difficult for turkey to make its debt repayments and washington is threatening to impose more economic pressure on ankara in northwest syria now civilians are fleeing it labe province ahead of a planned offensive by the government it labor is one of the last strongholds held by the opposition the un has warned that a military operation would put three million civilians at risk many of them are taking refuge in camps close to the turkish border roger today those are the latest headlines from us here at al-jazeera coming up next it's the listening past. as protests in nicaragua against the president continue and the number of those killed rises in b.c.

someone says i'm staying the problem no matter what the have to crash into the ball of reality that usually gets blocked. sent here america's ortega's from a vice president talks to al jazeera. demonstration. but right now by the time. come. out to be just. like. hello i'm richard ginsberg and you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories we're covering this week in bangladesh it's not just what you say about the government that might get you in trouble it's where you say this jailed journalist found that out the hard way facebook has issues with tell us sort a news network headquartered in venice away what kind of issues is the question we take a long look back at the one nine hundred sixty s. and seventy's.